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The Stories

7.364 average rating
★★★★★
7.364
German / 120 MIN. / 2026

The Genres

The Synopsis

The Stories is a decades-spanning Egyptian family saga and love story set between the late 1960s and 1980s. The film follows Ahmed, a young man from a Middle-Class Cairo family who dreams of becoming a concert pianist. During the tense summer of 1967, as war looms over Egypt, he begins a pen-pal correspondence with an Austrian woman named Elizabeth (“Liz”). A semi-autobiographical film based on the director's parents and how they met.

The Cast

Nelly KarimAmir El-MasryValerie PachnerAmr AbedAhmed KamalKhaled MokhtarSabry FawazSherif DesouqyNagui ChehataKarim KassemAhmed ElAzaarOsama AbdullahSarrah AbdelrahmanHassan El-AdlJohannes KrischMaria HofstätterJack Hofer

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